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New Exhibits Offer Spectacle Both Big and Small
American Museum of Natural History has three new exhibits
The Rose Center for Earth and Space which houses the Journey to the Stars exhibit
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The American Museum of Natural History is featuring three new exhibitions that are sure to educate and entertain museum-goers. Ranging in subject matter from the cosmos to the tiniest creatures, the interactive exhibitions featuring live animals and multimedia displays delight in their details.
The first, entitled Frogs: A Chorus of Colors is a colorful live-action experience featuring over 200 species of frogs. The exhibition aims to educate audiences on the wide variation in species, their purpose in ecosystems and the threats that they face in the natural world. It includes species ranging from Amazon milk frogs, which emit creamy, opaque secretions that can be quite poisonous, and Borneo ear frogs, which lay their eggs in foam nests that they create much like spiders with a discharge from their hind legs.
Another animal exhibit featured is Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time. The exhibit consists of the smallest mammals known (the bumblebee bat—no bigger than a bee) and information about the largest (the 200-ton blue whale). Unique and exotic mammals are featured including a skeleton of the Uintatherium—the first giant mammal that evolved after large dinosaurs became extinct and a life-sized relief model of an Ambulocetus natan, a prehistoric “walking whale” which bore many similarities to modern day whales but walked on land.
From life on Earth to life at its inception, the museum also offers Journey to the Stars now playing in the Hayden Planetarium. The Space Show features physics simulations of the fantastic supernova explosions 13 billion years in the past that produced the atoms that compose our worlds. Narrated by Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, the show also features a trip through our solar system using a compilation of never-before-seen telescopic images and a simulation of the birth of our sun.
For museum and ticket information visit www.amnh.org.